Top 10 Gaining Categories for US Market in December
The top 10 categories that attracted the maximum traffic for the month of December:
1. Fragrances/Cosmetics
2. Consumer Goods
3. Jewelry/Luxury Goods/Accessories
4. Shipping
5. Retail - Music
6. Gay/Lesbian
7. Retail - Food
8. Weather
9. Sports/Outdoors
10. Flowers/Gifts/Greetings
16 Jan 08 | Userbase of Jango social jukebox
The site was launched in November and it has already reached one million users. The reach is made by way of providing embeddable widgets. Next in line is a Facebook app.
Highest Perpetration of Spam
October 2007 marked the highest perpetration of spam emails. According to Commtouch, the Global Spam levels during this month reached an astounding 96 percent of all emails.
Christmas Shopping in UK and France
The period between September and October was taken as the base period for the study. Dec 3 - Dec 9 resulted in a 38 percent increase in shopping in UK and 45 percent increase in France. Dec 10 - 16 saw a 35% increase in UK and 39% increase in France.
Top 10 Websites by Page Views
The top 10 websites in terms of the page views for 2007:
1. MySpace
2. Yahoo
3. Google
4. Microsoft
5. Time Warner
6. Facebook
7. eBay
8. Craigslist
9. Comcast
10. Viacom
PC World Top 25 Most Innovative Products for 2007
The list of 25 products are
1. Google Gears
2. Apple iPhone
3. One Laptop per Child OLPC XO Notebook
4. Apple Time Machine, in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
5. Amazon Kindle
6. Netgear Digital Entertainer HD EVA8000
7. HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC
8. AT&T Tilt
9. Facebook API
10. DeviceVM Splashtop
11. Toshiba Portege R500
12. Data Robotics, Inc. Drobo
13. Hybrid Hard Drives Samsung Spinpoint MH80
Seagate Momentus 5400 PSD
14. Eye-Fi Card
15. Panasonic TH-42PZ700U
16. Yamaha Tenori-On
17. Zoho Notebook
18. Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’
19. IOGear Wireless USB Hub and Adapter
20. Mint Software, Inc.
21. Microsoft Popfly.com
22. Sprint Airave
23. Ask.com
24. eXpresso
25. Kodak EasyShare All-in-One Printers
Netscape Navigator dead?
AOL that acquired Netscape in November 1998 shall stop development work on the Netscape Navigator browser from February 1, 2008. This shall mark the end of the first commercial Internet browser.
The browser first came into being in October 1994 and it currently has a 0.6% market share in the browser market.
Top Yahoo subsites in 2007
Yahoo has around 1084 subsites. Among them the top subsites in popularity terms are
Yahoo.com
Yahoo Homepages
Yahoo Mail
Yahoo Search
Yahoo US Mail
Yahoo US Homepages
Yahoo US Search
Yahoo US Websearch
Yahoo Answers
Yahoo News
Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo Geocities
Yahoo Messenger (insider)
Yahoo Messenger (app)
Yahoo US Geocities
Yahoo Music
What’s most popular at Amazon this season?
62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are
Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic Eye, IlluStory Make Your Own Story Kit and Spinmaster Air Hogs Havoc Heli
Videogames : Nintendo Wii, “Super Mario Galaxy” and “Call of Duty 4.”
DVD : “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” “Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.”
Books : “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert, “The Dangerous Book for Boys” by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden and “I Am America (And So Can You)” by Stephen Colbert
Music : “Noel” by Josh Groban, “Raising Sand” by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and “As I Am” by Alicia Keys
Consumer Electronics : Garmin GPS, Canon PowerShot digital Elph cameras and Samsung LCD HDTVs.
PC : Apple MacBook, Nokia Internet Tablet PC and HP Pavilion Entertainment Notebook PC.
Home Improvement : Black & Decker auto wrench, Black & Decker Gecko grip level and Leatherman Micra multitool
Watches : Timex heart rate monitor watch, LEGO Kids’ Star Wars Darth Vader watch and Skagen women’s Silver Dial mesh bracelet watch
Ask.com Growth Rate
From November 2006 to November 2007, the traffic on Ask.com has increased from 29.8 million visitors to 46 million visitors. This is after $100 million was invested in the American site of Ask. Growth rate in Europe:
Ask Spain 2062%
Ask Germany 3006%
Ask France 606%.